Certain skills must be learned if one is to use English well.

如果想要用好英语，某些技巧是必须学的。

He was never to see his wife again.

他注定再也见不到他妻子了。

Were we to offer you more money, would you stay?

如果我们给你加钱，你愿意留下吗？

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单项填空

In dry weather the flowers will have to be watered if they           .                                                        （原创）

A. have survived              B. are to survive

C. would survive              D. will survive

解析:选B。考查真实条件句。are to survive在此处并不表示将来，而表示“期望”。

14. But when I tried to step forward, I found I was carried twice as far as on the earth and fell over.

而当我试着向前迈步的时候，我发觉我被送出去很远，步子的跨度竟是地球上的两倍，因而我摔倒了。

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twice as ...as ... 是……的两倍

联想拓展

英语中的倍数表达法：

倍数+as +adj./adv.+as 是……的几倍

倍数+adj./adv.的比较级+ than 比……(多/大)几倍

倍数+ the +表示长度/高度/宽度等的名词+ of是……长度/高度/宽度的几倍，此结构中常用的名词有：size, height, weight, length, width, depth等。

This ruler is three times as long as that one.

=This ruler is twice longer than that one.

=This ruler is three times the length of that one.

这把尺子是那把的三倍长。

There are four times as many students as we expected.

到的学生是我们预计的五倍。

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高手过招

(1)翻译句子                                                         （原创）

这个房子是那个的三倍大。

(2)完成句子

到的客人是我们预计的两倍。

There are                                                 we expected .

答案：(1)This house is three times as big as that one./This house is twice bigger than that one./This house is three times the size of that one.

(2)twice as many guests as